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Jan 06
I asked myself which one of the free image hosting should I sign up such as Flickr, Picasa Web Albums and Photobucket. I am sure you have this question. What I wanted is a free account for my images to link in my blog here and I also wanted to have a free account host my photos taken using my DSLR. So, I am here to share with you the features and limitations offered by Flickr, PicasaWeb and Photobucket.
Flickr’s free account offers a 100MB monthly upload limit (10MB per photo) and only 3 sets (aka album) can be created with no monthly bandwidth limit. Flickr allows only the 200 most recent images to be viewed once you have reached more than 200 images uploaded. You can post any of your images in up to 10 images in a group. Original size images are saved for later upgrade and only smaller images will accessible after being resized.
As for Picasa Web Albums, a free photo sharing service offered by Google providing 1GB of free storage and the images uploaded to Picasa Web Albums can be no larger than 20MB and are restricted to 50 megapixels or less with no monthly bandwidth limit. The maximum number of web albums allow is 250 and the maximum number of photos per web album allow is 500.
Lastly, Photobucket’s free account offers 1GB of free storage with a 25GB of monthly bandwidth limit and custom URLS for up to 10 albums. The images uploaded to Photobucket can be 1MB each or by 1024×768 resolution. However, you can have up to 50 images per slideshow (some slideshows vary) and you are allow to upload a 5 minutes of video playing time (100MB in filesize).
The conclusion is really up to you to choose on which free image hosting provider. As for me, I am using both Flickr and Photobucket now. I have not try Picasa Web Albums from Google yet. In fact, these three providers Flickr, Picasa Web Albums and Photobucket does offers pay version of image hosting with different features and it really depends on how you want to use them when it comes to sharing and social networking.
Jan 06, 2009 @ 23:16:39
Hey WL, I think the best is still facebook for a free service man! The rest have got too much limitation for the long run! There’s a business oppty for you
Jan 07, 2009 @ 22:38:09
I’ve been using Picasa Web Album and 72photos.com for hosting my blog photos so far so good. Picasa web is much more easier to use as you need to install the software on your pc to do upload and you can resize the photo when uploading.
72photos.com is getting slower now, maybe of the interface or too many ppl using it.
Jan 12, 2009 @ 12:09:29
I’m on Flickr and have a pro account with them. Picasa however has a cool face recognition feature
Apr 28, 2009 @ 23:13:00
I am not sure bout the others, but as you mentioned, the Flickr Pro account will archive your original photos. So if someone is uploading to share and keeps their originals on their computer, that is not that important.
However, if a person is using the site for true photo storage, this is very important. Many sites just have you upload a smaller version of the original with no provision for archiving the higher resolution photos.
Susan
Digital Photo Storage
Jun 24, 2010 @ 16:11:48
Great overview!!! I’m reposting this! Thanks!
Jun 25, 2010 @ 01:36:09
Gabby, thanks for liking my post
Jun 01, 2011 @ 11:47:39
I’ve just gone through exactly the same conundrum to decide on one of the paid services. I was looking for a cloud based system to act as my primary (and backup) source for all my photos, so I need to be able to store all my originals too. Photobucket was ruled out pretty quickly. Picasa Web was tempting because it was from Google and it’d be nice to keep all my stuff with the one provider (email, calendar, photos etc). But, in the end I’ve chosen to go with Flickr Pro as it allows you unlimited storage, keeps your original photos, integrates with Piknic easily for simply editing online.
I’m going to see how that goes for a year and if needs be, I’ll switch to Picasa Web.